Affliction Warlock Artifact Traits and Relics

This section of the Affliction Warlock guide explains how to progress through your artifact weapon Ulthalesh, important traits, and relic bonuses to look for. This guide is written by Terryn, I stream a lot on twitch. You can also check out my youtube page where I frequently post guides, ramblings, and boss kills. If you have any questions, it's best to PM me on discord @Terryn#6182. Updated for the latest patch.

Active Ability

First of all you gain Seelen ernten when you acquire your weapon. This gives you a button that will increase your damage by 10% and will double the effects of all artifact abilities. Abilities that have a % chance to proc will gain double the proc rate instead of doubling the effect they deal on a proc (example: Tödliche Echos). Reap's duration is increased based on the number of Tormented Souls consumed by the use, 5 seconds for each soul.

After this, just fill it out the rest of the way, some note to Saat der Verdammnis to help make mythic + slightly less painful... Once all your points are filled, you will be able to start leveling up Einigkeit der Legionsrichter ever so slowly. A full picture of this is listed below:

Relic choices

Your weapon can equip up to 3 relics if you unlocked your 3rd relic slot in your Hexenmeister campaign. You have 2x shadow and 1x blood relic slot. As far as ranking, they are all relatively close, but this is a ranking for equivalent relics with item level consideration. The +# ilvl is how many item levels the relics need to be to be equivalent to higher ranked relics.